I’ve been looking at posts on Reddit’s r/Screenwriting area for a while and seeing so many fellow writers trying to understand why their brilliant scripts (who knows if that’s true, but I expect at least a number are) fail to …
Author: mitusents
Biochemist, MBA, then programmer. Now novelist, screenplay writer and hopefully director. What a strange trip it's been.
Mr. Holmes
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Yesterday we went to watch Fallout at the theater. My wife’s got some sort of deal that gets us in for $5 a person (of course, we’re also going at 3:30 in the afternoon) as well as some kind of …
More on Auditions
I’m almost done with auditions, and about ready to start the agonizing process of selecting who to cast. There have been a number of surprises in this process, though. I was initially contacted by 66 people for one or more …
My First Audition!
Sunday I had my very first audition. Crystal Day lives in Charlottesville, which is much closer to the Shenandoah house than our Maryland house. We were scheduling an audition for Monday night when I discovered this, so suggested she visit …
A busy two weeks!
I’ve been a bit overwhelmed the last two weeks, so didn’t get the blog post last week. But so much has happened, most of it really great, that I need to do an update.
I created an ad that I …
Why so quiet?
I think it’s been nearly a month since I posted here (notwithstanding the flurry I just made). We had a 3 week vacation to the Philippines, for my ‘rents-in-law’s 60th wedding anniversary and my father-in-law’s 85th birthday. It was a …
Got me a DP
Last Thursday I met with young Nathan Airey, to see if we clicked in person like we’d been clicking via email. We’d been swapping emails ever since I posted to Reddit asking for places to look for Directors of Photography …
Dr. Bella
This is a little premature, but I’m excited on her behalf, so want to blog about it. Many moons ago I beta read Dr. Bella Ellwood-Clayton’s romance novel “Camera Ready.” She’s since decided to go with “Lights, Camera…Kiss Me!” which …
The Dominatrix Was Blue
For a number of months now I’ve been itching to write a follow-on work to The Dominatrix Wore Red, a murder mystery and my first completed screenplay. Whilst on vacation for three weeks, I wrote the first draft. Though …